Widow and killer-for-hire get life sentences for murdering husband

Widow and killer-for-hire get life sentences for murdering husband

Alisha Noel standing next her lawyer, Wynton Sharpe as she is sentenced to life imprisonment at Brooklyn Supreme Court. Eagle photos by Paul Frangipane.

By Paul Frangipane

Special to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle

A woman who had her husband killed to collect health insurance money and the hired shooter got life sentences on Thursday as a full courtroom of the victim’s family sobbed and cheered from the audience.

On Feb. 24, 2013, Omar Murray, 37, was sent to the grocery store by his wife Alisha Noel. When he returned, gunman Kirk Portious was waiting for him and shot him dead inside the doorway of Murray’s Brownsville home while Noel and their child waited upstairs.

Four years later, Murray’s family broke out in applause when Judge Neil Firetog threw a life sentence at Murray’s ex-wife Noel, who stood stone-faced in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

“This was the person that was my sister,” Murray’s brother Andrew said about Noel in court. “I thought she loved my brother … my brother deserved more than this.”

Noel was convicted in a jury trial on June 8, 2017 to first-degree murder for plotting to kill her husband to collect nearly $900,000 in life insurance.

Noel took out the money before the murder and tried to cash out the policies days after her husband’s death, according to court documents. She paid Portious $3,500 for the murder.

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